ὅρκος

See also: όρκος

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *serḱ- (“to fence”). Cognate with ἕρκος (hérkos, “fence”), ὁρκάνη (horkánē, “fence”), ἑρκάνη (herkánē, “fence”), Latin sarciō.[1]

ὅρκος • (hórkos) m (genitive ὅρκου); second declension

the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath, as the Styx was among the gods, or as Zeus was among mortals
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.38
an oath
Synonym: ὅρκιον (hórkion)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.377

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὅρκος ho hórkos	τὼ ὅρκω tṑ hórkō	οἱ ὅρκοι hoi hórkoi
Genitive	τοῦ ὅρκου toû hórkou	τοῖν ὅρκοιν toîn hórkoin	τῶν ὅρκων tôn hórkōn
Dative	τῷ ὅρκῳ tôi hórkōi	τοῖν ὅρκοιν toîn hórkoin	τοῖς ὅρκοις toîs hórkois
Accusative	τὸν ὅρκον tòn hórkon	τὼ ὅρκω tṑ hórkō	τοὺς ὅρκους toùs hórkous
Vocative	ὅρκε hórke	ὅρκω hórkō	ὅρκοι hórkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕρκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460

“ὅρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὅρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ὅρκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὅρκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ὅρκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ὅρκος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3727 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- affirmation idem, page 16.
- asseveration idem, page 46.
- oath idem, page 564.
- swearing idem, page 847.

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